From: Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] What's your closest unheard AM station? KDAC
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 12:53 AM
Don,
Back in the 90s Bob and I were on our way back from LA and
driving up
101 and I got a new report for KDAC I had brought along,
logging it a
few days before we left for our trip. I think I even had a
cassette with
programming as I remember. I called the station from just
before
Willits and caught their CE. I asked him if he would QSL
my report. He
said "sure" "Where are you?" I told him
and Bob who as driving the van,
and I said "Turn", so we took the turn on Hy 20
and headed West. Quite a
curving road as I remember. We drove into Ft Bragg and
easily found the
station. I believe the format was C&W at the time.
Really a cool
building with gardens out front and a neat old radio museum
in the
lobby. The tower is right behind the station too. Bob was
writing for
Radio World at the time and he always tried to find that
little unique
station for a story. He interviewed the engineer and took
a bunch of
pix and he had his story and I had my verie on nice KDAC
letterhead. It
was well worth the trip over. I put a picture right in with
the QSL.
When I got home, there was a second QSL letter from the GM,
who had
answered my report just after we left for LA.
KDAC had quite a history for many years. The old owner
had a real
dislike for DXers. I remember hearing them in the 60s and
sending
several reports. I believe I caled the station and the GM
hung up on me.
They were really a "Black" station for many
years. When I logged them in
the early 90s, the station had just been sold as the old
owner fell of
ill health and was forced to sell.
I have not seen the station again, but it was one of
those beautiful
sunny Northern California days, not a cloud in the sky. It
really made a
nice picture.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
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